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WATCH BELOW: Top-rated news anchor resigns, destroys media bias

"WE ARE INTELLECTUAL PROSTITUTES"

One night, probably in 1880, John Swinton, then the preeminent New York journalist, was the guest of honour at a banquet given him by the leaders of his craft. Someone who knew neither the press nor Swinton offered a toast to the independent press. Swinton outraged his colleagues by replying:

There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.

There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.

The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?

We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes"

Today the winds of change are shifting. Once only the wealthy could afford to launch a Professional News Outlet. Today many opportunities are arising and being taken up by the honest Reporters of our world like Kari Lake. And she is correct when she said "GOD's got my back". Not only God, but also every citizen who actually knows God. 

WATCH BELOW: Top-rated news anchor resigns, destroys media bias

One of the most popular news anchors in Phoenix walked away from her job Tuesday, and she obliterated the country’s biased establishment media on the way out.

KSAZ-TV’s Kari Lake, who has been half of the Fox affiliate’s successful ratings duo for two decades, announced in a Twitter post with a video posted to Rumble that she would walk away at the top of her game. She left nothing on the table, blowing the whistle on the bias that has rotted American news media from top to bottom for so many years.

“Twenty-two years ago, Fox 10 hired me and paired me up with John Hook to bring you the news every night. Shortly after becoming a team, we jumped in the ratings and we’ve held the number-one spot for almost all of our time together,” began Lake. “Anyone who's worked in TV news can tell you that is not an easy feat, and it’s one I’m extremely proud of -- and I thank you for that.”

Indeed, those who have worked in TV news, and especially in local markets, know that the dynamics are always shifting in the never-ending battle for ratings. News directors come and go, photojournalists and producers come and go and competing networks are always trying to topple the leader in a game of king of the hill.

What many people don’t see, and you can’t see it unless you’ve worked in local television news, is that leftism permeates many of these corporate-owned and supposedly community newsrooms. Anchors and reporters are overwhelmingly liberal.

The most ardently leftist of these people generally seem to be the show producers -- the people who organize the programs, decide what the news is and then write or co-write the news copy that anchors read off the teleprompter.

“Sadly, journalism has changed a lot since I first stepped into a newsroom, and I’ll be honest: I don’t like the direction it’s going,” Lake said. “The media needs more balance in coverage and a wider ranger of viewpoints represented in every newsroom at every level and in each position.”

She then uttered the one statement which probably solidified her as an actual journalist: She was no longer proud of what she did.

“In the past few years, I haven’t felt proud to be a member of the media. I’m sure there are other journalists out there who feel the same way. I found myself reading news copy that I didn’t believe was fully truthful, or only told part of the story,” she said.

“And I began to feel that I was contributing to the fear and division in this country by continuing on in this profession.”

With that, she left her post as one of the faces of the most popular newscasters in the country’s 11th-biggest media market in the country.

“It’s been a serious struggle for me and I no longer want to do this job anymore,” she said. “So I’ve decided the time is right to do something else, and I’m leaving Fox 10. I thank Fox for their understanding as I’ve come to this decision, and I am grateful for the opportunities they provided for me to cover so many big stories over the years.”

“As I close this chapter of my career, there will probably be some hit pieces written about me. Not everyone is dedicated to telling the truth, but thankfully, many of you have figured that out. I promise you, if you hear it from my lips, it will be truthful,” Lake went on.

"It is scary walking away from a good job and a successful career, especially in difficult times. I know God has my back and will guide me to work that aligns with my values.”

What Lake did took a lot of personal courage. Most TV journalists will work their entire careers angling to get into the anchor's chair. The few who make it then enjoy a large amount of community respect and recognition -- and a nice salary.

Lake walked away from all of it and told those who probably suspected they could trust her that they were right. She also told them they are being deceived by an industry that is inundated by leftists.

These places are staffed probably 80-20 liberal versus conservative, minimum, and most of those liberals tend to be from somewhere else as they ride from one city to another and pad their résumés. The result is often a biased and sterile on-air product made by people who resent their audiences and know very little about the areas in which they live.

Lake predicted there would be some “hit pieces” written about her, and she was correct. The Arizona Republic quickly dismissed her in a hit piece noting she had left her job.

“While no one can pretend journalists are perfect, there are also members of the media who are justifiably proud of their work in the last few years — for example, when it came to reporting on former President Donald Trump and the 2020 election,” the paper’s Bill Goodykoontz wrote.

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